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Staff Picks
The Book Eaters
By Sunyi Dean
An unusual sci-fi story about a book eater woman who tries
desperately to save her dangerous mind-eater son from tradition
and certain death. Complete with dysfunctional family values,
light Sapphic romance, and a strong, complex protagonist. Not
for the faint of heart.
Staff Picks
Cackle
By Rachel Harrison
Are your Halloween movies of choice The Witches of Eastwick and
Practical Magic? Look no further than here - where a woman
recovering from a breakup moves to a quaint town in upstate New
York and befriends a beautiful witch.
Staff Picks
Dante: Poet of the Secular World
By Erich Auerbach
Auerbach's engaging book places the 'Comedy' within the
tradition of epic, tragedy, and philosophy in general, arguing
for Dante's uniqueness as one who raised the individual and his
drama of soul into something of divine significance—an inspired
introduction to Dante's main themes.
Staff Picks
The Last Queen
By Clive Irving
A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth (and
her family) exploring how the Windsors have evolved and thrived
as the modern world has changed around them.
Staff Picks
The Body
By Stephen King
Powerful novel that takes you back to a nostalgic time,
exploring both the beauty and danger and loss of innocence that
is youth.
Staff Picks
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By Toni Jenson
This memoir about the author's relationship with gun violence
feels both expansive and intimate, resulting in a lyrical
indictment of the way things are.
Staff Picks
Days of Distraction
By Alexandra Chang
A sardonic view of Silicon Valley culture, a meditation on race,
and a journal of displacement and belonging, all in one
form-defying package of spare prose.
Staff Picks
Dominicana
By Angie Cruz
A fascinating story of a teenage girl who marries a man twice
her age with the promise to bring her to America. Her marriage
is an opportunity for her family to eventually immigrate. For
fans of Isabel Allende and Julia Alvarez.
Staff Picks
Crude: A Memoir
By Pablo Fajardo & Sophie Tardy-Joubert
Drawing and color by Damien Roudeau | This book illustrates the
struggles of a group of indigenous Ecuadoreans as they try to
sue the ChevronTexaco company for damage their oil fields did to
the Amazon and her people
Staff Picks
Let My People Go Surfing
By Yvon Chouinard
Chouinard—climber, businessman, environmentalist—shares tales of
courage and persistence from his experience of founding and
leading Patagonia, Inc. Full title: Let My People Go Surfing:
The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Including 10 More
Years of Business Unusual.
Staff Picks
The Octopus Museum: Poems
By Brenda Shaughnessy
This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems
imagines what comes after our current age of environmental
destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.
Staff Picks
Shark Dialogues: A Novel By Kiana Davenport
By Kiana Davenport
An epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the
tumultuous history of Hawaii as a Hawaiian woman gathers her
four granddaughters together in an erotic tale of villains and
dreamers, queens and revolutionaries, lepers and healers.
Staff Picks
Casual Conversation
By Renia White
White's impressive debut collection takes readers through and
beyond the concepts of conversation and the casual - both what
we say to each other and what we don't, examining the
possibilities around how we construct and communicate identity.
Staff Picks
The Great Fire
By Lou Ureneck
The harrowing story of an ordinary American and a principled
Naval officer who, horrified by the burning of Smyrna, led an
extraordinary rescue effort that saved a quarter of a million
refugees from the Armenian Genocide
Staff Picks
Rickey: The Life and Legend
By Howard Bryant
With the fall rolling around, one can't help but think of
baseball's postseason coming up! And what better way to prepare
for it than reading the biography of one of the game's all-time
greatest performers, the Man of Steal, Rickey Henderson?
Staff Picks
Slug: And Other Stories
By Megan Milks
Exes Tegan and Sara find themselves chained together by
hairballs of codependency. A father and child experience the
shared trauma of giving birth to gods from their wounds.
Coffee shop
In our library, we have of cozy coffee shop, welcoming in customers
with frothy cappuccinos and friendly conversation. You can
get a favorite book and read in coffee shop. our barista to cook you
best coffee, and also you can try desserts from bakery.
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